Oh wow, and it sounds pretty funny from the summary.
XD
I'll keep it in the rotation, then.
Thanks, pal.
I'll check it on my phone.
YT absolutely destroys Firefox, for some reason.
I’ve always been a huge fan of James Gurney’s work on the Dinotopia series.
Huh! My last 'true love' upon such a series was upon the 70's Land of the Lost, directly revealing my age-range, I suppose. But Dinotopia sounds really interesting, so you got me right there!
His work got me into watercolor and oil painting. To me, he’s my original love of the medium.
Really, now?
Speaking as a watercolor artist myself, just... fluffing oils?
I mean... that period in TdF was totally fascinating, but also a pretty harsh, bleak, and tragic history and place. And yes... I still have a couple more posts to make.
Meanwhile,
https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-12279-BD-Esteban.html
Glad you enjoyed!
Is there any particular genre of GN that you like?
FWIW, I freaked out once over something relatively minor across the Lemmy-modality, and the dev (one of the two, can't remember which) was just a calm, gem of a person upon my temporary paranoia.
Man, I was... blown away.
(thought I was going to be banned to hell, yadda-yadda)
Um, well, I find that comic kind of 'demonstrative' and 'in your face,' as if everything is trying to make a strong impact, or impression. I don't mind the facial art in terms of basic layout and skill, but at time there's also this melodramatic kind of over-expressiveness that I'm not a fan of. It reminds me of modern Disney films, which I don't enjoy too much, a lot of that due to the characters having to be 'on' all the time. Wise-cracking, chattering loudly, facial expressions whirling from one reaction to the next... all that stuff.
Euro-stuff (and it's bad to generalise, I know), I find tends to be more matter-of-fact, more subtle, more 'in-the-details' to me for the most part. More psychological in nature, one might say. Altho of course there's also some gonzo, weird, arty stuff like Klaus Nomi (Deutschland) or Hurra Torpedo (Norge) songs, just to conjure a type of style.
I don't know. What do you think..?
Ah, I've read that one before.
I like the art, and don't mind the NSFW aspects, but just as I'm trying to avoid manga-style work, I'm also trying to avoid American-style work, and this one is ultra-heavy on... I guess I might say 'style and showiness,' which I tend to associate with American culture and artistry. I could say more, but I think I'll leave it at that.
Don't get me wrong, please-- I love my dose of Bollywood, Shaw Bros HK films, Zucker Bros films, and so forth, but those showy, stylish works are designed as self-parody in many ways, the same way BACK does it, above.
Honestly, finding even semi-Euro-style webcomics in English is just NOT easy, so I do appreciate your efforts, mate.
Since I first posted this list some months back, I've found a few more entries to add, but only time, and snooping through hundreds of candidates, got me there. It simply isn't easy finding the right stuff for this list. :S
Interesting, thanks!
I'm reading it now...
Note: I'm currently, heavily shut down in terms of my image uploads, so can only offer 'one-offs' for the time being.
So then, "Norspac" is an ingenious artist to me, and if there's one thing artists envy & admire about other artists, it's their talent and ingenuity, daggit!
I think my personal favorite of theirs is perhaps Doom Spider:
https://norspac.com/static/7b89ec3781edbefaa5a8a3d2fe6dcfa8/662c7/norspac_doom_spider_shopify.webp
Artist site: https://norspac.com/
Now, no doubt this is my own dumbarse fault, but I'm coming to find that relying on Imgur to preserve my pic-content across the mini-articles I write and share on the Lemmysphere is just... well, I mean it's just so utterly hit-or-miss that it's become completely unreliable, daggit.
For example, I happened to check on the Satania review I first posted ~10mos ago, and discovered that the Imgur page source had been deleted without notice, altho oddly, the lead full thumbnail / image still remains. Like, what...?!
Point is-- there seems to be utterly no rhyme nor reason for the image deletions, whether the content is uploaded via official acct or not, or is kid-safe vs NSFW stuff, or is new vs old stuff, or even via file-size issue (I think, not totally sure).
Anyway, yeah... it's clearly past time to get the hell out.
So what would you recommend, mateys, and how reliable do you think that host is? (I'm completely cool with paying a monthly fee via PayPal in order for our content to last)
Note: the lead pic is just an anti-Imgur thing I randomly discovered, lol.
Just a little test to see if image uploads are working today. (they are, yay!)
Ship of Fools is a pretty wacky series that I've only read a bit of so far. It seems to blend steampunk and medieval sensibilities with comical drama. I find the background art really nice, with the people and animals being a little over-caricatured for my taste, but hey... at 13 volumes it's obviously very successful in the BD-sphere(!)
Lots of samples to look at here:
https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-36-BD-Nef-des-fous.html
Who knows how long these will stay up, so catch 'em if you can...
Korgoth of Barbaria is the most hilarious post-apoc work I've ever seen in my life, and a pilot which originally ran on Adult Swim. Take my word on this one-- it... is... killer. Features John DiMaggio, the voice of "Bender" from Futurama, and is co-created by Genndy Tartakovsky, the guy behind Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack and many others. Click that link to list the current places to watch, which should mostly be DailyMotion links. (similar to YT)
The Big Knights - 'Britcom'-style animated series starring Brian Blessed. Quirky, amusing fun, and of course... Brian Blessed! :D (should be about 13 short eps)
Exordium, previously posted here (follow the link). A mere 8min in length, but an excellent, grim, apocalyptic, swords & sorcery-type piece, with some interesting philosophical connotations.
Dinner for Few, a Greek-produced, 10min, thumpingly-good takedown of the vicious circle of runaway capitalism. Another must-watch piece in my book.
Wallace and Gromit - sorry, folks, I don't have a specific piece picked out, but if you follow that link, you should see a bunch of samples of this utterly brill British series, using 'claymation' to produce a range of rather legendary shorts, and even a few full movies.
Anybody got anything else to add..?
Babloon
Cardimelon
Catcus
Corcenga
French Kiss (get it?)
Gorilegg
I know very little about the artist, just that I love this stuff. His main site seems to be down at the moment, but at least there's an Instagram stream: https://www.instagram.com/animalsinthings/
For those who still visit the evil empire, there's r/HybridAnimals for more of this art. Does such a community exist in the Lemmysphere? I'm not sure, but if not, it sure wouldn't hurt if someone wanted to start it up!
Saw this one somewhere on Tumblr the other day, and figured I'd try my (morbid) hand.
Usually I'm just posting to EGN+ (Euro comics), but I think it's good to stray a little, such as here, SuperbOwl, and via "Nietzsche's Family Circus," let's say:
The above creature is called a "caravelle," an immense, limbless, reptilian-like herbivore that floats freely in the atmosphere thanks to a bladder-like structure filled with helium, which the creature is somehow able to synthesize by consuming a particular type of algae. They also have sail-like mobile membranes which allow them to be easily propelled by the wind currents. (thanks, Fandom)
It also happens to remind me a lot of some of Vicente Segrelles' creatures from The Mercenary. (Nacktmull has uploaded half a dozen, there)
Artwork used for the covers of Aldebaran T5 and the "integral" editions.
LEO (or Léo) of course is Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira, born in Brasil, who lives and works in France. He's produced and/or collaborated on a fabulous range of sci-fi / mystery series, usually involving expeditions to far-flung star systems, as well as a few historical series, such as Trent, about a Canadian Mountie not named Dudley Do-Right (sample episode). (both massive personal favorites of mine) [LBK] [BDT]
Another caravelle, with objects for scale.
Finally, a "theodores," yet another creature from planet Aldebaran-4, which the series focuses on.
And now for something completely different. (or maybe just slightly different, but I accidentally bumped in to these while searching for some of the above)
It's a hapless creature under attack by "beachquills," inhabitants of Darwin IV, as seen in Discovery Channel's 2005 docu-movie Alien Planet.
Hidden about 30 centimeters beneath the soft soil of the littoral zone are rafts of these communal hunters. Often numbering in the scores, these dart-shaped creatures lie in wait for the unwary passerby to tread on the soil directly above them. --Fandom
...and colleagues, from the page Darwin IV species.
I haven't watched this movie yet, but so far it looks like a remarkably good match with LEO's expeditionary series, and not unlike Scavenger's Reign, perhaps.
Currently it looks like the movie is free to watch at the first and seventh links, here: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Alien+Planet%22+2005+film&udm=7
EDIT: Hmm, I appreciate the quality on the full film (7th link), but I prefer how the abridged version (1st link) gets right in to the mission and leaves out the talking heads.
I really enjoyed this wild, rollicking, satirical, controversial double-book ("La Grande Arnaque" / "The Big Hoax"), blazed ahead by it's Truman Capote-style narrator.
It's by the brilliant Argentinian team of writer Carlos Trillo and artist Domingo Mandrafina, with a third mystery person adding all the loverly new color, not previously seen in the original volumes!
So me, I'm trying to put some pages together upon this work to create a half-arsed mini-article, if I can manage it, haha. In the meantime, it seems like GoodReads kinda trashed this one:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3418641-la-grande-arnaque
As an art-fancier and someone who dabbles myself, I've always gotten a kick out of the creation process, from "thumbnail" to penciled page, to an inked page, and finally a fully-colorized one.
I spotted these two pages on Tumblr yesterday, I believe from the English-language volume Good Golly, Mr. Goof!
...and combined them in to the lead image at top. Color makes a world of difference, non??
Now I forget who posted them exactly (whups), but you can skim Tumblr's BD stream if you like. It's quite nice, featuring lots of stuff I haven't gotten to yet, plus a good amount of stuff I've never heard of.
Ah, and some previous examples of the page creation process below...
EDIT: Imgur currently screwing up the content of the next two, whilst preserving the third. 🙄
Béatrice Tillier:
https://lemm.ee/post/36811732
Tintin, the lost "Picaros" page:
https://lemm.ee/post/17935055
Kriss of Valnor: (haven't shared it here yet formally)
https://imgur.com/a/creation-process-of-la-montagne-de-temps-mountain-of-time-v7-of-kriss-of-valnor-from-world-of-thorgal-series-6BYBHWP
NOTE: Hey y'all-- I don't know how it is for you, but for me, any page that leads with an Imgur pic needs to be manually clicked to view, such as in the first two links just above. In other words, for me it won't show up as a thumbnail that can be 'popped open.'
My working theory is that the problem was introduced in Lemmy v. 0.19.7, which is what this instance is running. (you can check it at bottom of page)
Now maybe-possibly this is fixed in 0.19.8, but I'm not sure. If you can see the thumbnails yourself, could you reply with which Lemmy version your instance is running? Thanks! 😃
Carrying on from this earlier post, here's Ms. Bengalore the cat (and animal representative) doing the utterly unthinkable by confronting the castle's tyrant-ruler Silvio the bull in his headquarters, surrounded as he is by canines who'd love nothing better than to rip her throat out.
Note: I have one more 8-page sequence I've picked out to share, but it's unrelated, and I need to format it, too. So, enjoy this page for now:
Par for the course, the elites of this so-called 'socialist' community force the underlings to gather wood and work to expand the castle during winter, then use their wages (buttons) to pay for enough wood in order to avoid freezing during the night.
But, hark! The lower beasts, after much hardship and debate, have decided to try a different course. It took a lot for them to get there of course, but now they're ready to risk their lives and put their paws down for this step in revolution.
Welp, this has been a tremendous series so far, with the French-language issues still being published. If all goes well, they'll later get collected and translated in to the final book (four) in the series. Oh, and one thing I forgot to mention last time-- each ~22pp issue features a cover (or is it a back?) of a fictional gazette published by the ruling class. I find them super-clever. For example:
More covers and sample pages can be seen at BDT: (scroll down)
https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-60691-BD-Chateau-des-Animaux.html
I don't remember where I first discovered her art, but it was just about love at first sight. I posted the owl pic before at the loverly c/SuperbOwl, but I wanted to share a bit more of the goodness. So, let's go:
Among the Camellias
Barred Owl
Vasilisa Romanenko is a Connecticut-based illustrator, designer, and fine artist. She creates paintings and drawings inspired by botany, natural history, and textile design. Her artwork depicts the mystery, beauty, and fragility of nature through the use of botanical elements, intricate patterns, and vivid colors.
Elderberries
Aquatic Nocturne
Vasilisa sees her paintings as windows into a magical world, much like the one she enjoyed getting lost in as a child while reading fairy tales. She creates artwork using both traditional and digital mediums. Vasilisa graduated with a degree in Illustration from the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Harvest Mice
Primavera
Much more goodness at her site:
https://www.vasilisaart.com/
EDIT: Problem with her website at the moment, so...
Etsy:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/vasilisaart/?etsrc=sdt
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/vasilisa.romanenko/?hl=en
More:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Vasilisa+Romanenko%22+%22art%22
Salut, Valmond!
Yeah, I found Exquisite Corpse both hilarious and delightful. One of my favorites.